s body is _his_
body; his feet are _his_ feet, and if he chooses to run away with
them it is nobody's business"; and all honor to him, he added,
"Now, these propositions have been established for the colored
man. Why does not man establish them for woman, his wife, his
mother?"

Determined to surround the colored man with every possible
guarantee of protection in the possession of his freedom,
congress stopped the wheels of legislation, and made the whole
country wait, while day after day and night after night his
friends fought inch by inch the ground for the civil rights bill.
During that debate Senator Frelinghuysen said:

When I took the oath as senator, I took the oath to support
the Constitution of the United States, which declares
equality for all: and in advocating this bill I am doing my
sworn duty in endeavoring to secure equal rights for every
citizen of the United States.

But where slept his "sworn duty" when he recorded his vote in the
Senate against woman suffrage? With marvelous inconsistency, as a
reason for opposing woman suffrage, during the Pembina debate,
May 27, 1874, Senator Merrimon said of the relation of women to
the Constitution of the United States:

They have sustained it under all circumstances with their
love, their hands, and their hearts; with their smiles and
their tears they have educated their children to live for
it, and to die for it.

Therefore the honorable gentleman denies them the right to vote.

Upon the civil rights bill, Senator Howe said:

I do not know but what the passage of this bill will break
up the common schools. I admit that I have some fear on that
point. Every step of this terrible march has been met with a
threat; but let justice be done although the common schools
and the heavens do fall.

In reply to the point made by Mr. Stockton that the people of the
United States would not accept this bill, Mr. Howe said:

I would not turn back if I knew that of the forty million
people of the United States not one million would sustain
it. If this generation does not accept it there is a
generation to come that will accept it. What does this
provide? Not that the black man shoul